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Design of ROK UN Stamp (Scott #95)

February 3, 2020November 17, 2019 Frank L. Allard925Leave a Comment

On August 8, 1983, Forrest W. Calkins wrote the following letter to Frank Allard (only an excerpt is included), along with the enclosure referenced in the paragraph: “Over the weekend I did some digging to find some of the ROK covers that I did design, and was lucky to locate one of the UN stamps. […]

First-Flight Cover, Hibiscus over North Pole

July 24, 2019August 21, 2019 Stanley Kim2479Leave a Comment

The SAS (Scandinavian Airline System) opened a polar shortcut on February 24, 1957, flying an SAS DC-7C from Copenhagen, Denmark via Anchorage, Alaska to Tokyo, Japan. This new North Pole shortcut shortened the flying time between Denmark and Japan from 50 hours to 32 hours.

First Flight Before “Normalization” between Japan and Korea

July 3, 2019August 21, 2019 Stanley Kim1345Leave a Comment

Diplomatic normalization between the Republic of Korea and Japan came in 1965. The Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea was signed on June 22, 1965, to establish a basic relationship between Japan and the Republic of Korea following liberation from Japanese occupation in 1945. It took almost twenty years just […]

Reader’s Question: Too early day of issue of DPRK stamps?

April 20, 2019May 17, 2019 KP Online Editor15081 Comment

(Reader’s question/Q&A) While browsing Ebay I recently ran into a listing which I first thought had read incorrectly. It was the “The 80th Anniversary of the Victorious Battles in the Musan Area” set of stamps, with a date of publication of 22 May 2019. However, despite these stamps’ future day of issue here they were, available […]

Usage Of Recently Issued Commemoratives? (2)

September 5, 2018June 2, 2019 Ivo Spanjersberg14152 Comments

Recently when I bought some stamps from a Korean dealer through Ebay I received an envelope with some very recently issued commemoratives on it. This time the same seller went further and not only used the most recent stamps issued, but he actually created an FDC while doing so!

The Four Categories of Korean Souvenir Sheets

June 15, 2018January 15, 2019 Lyman Hale1566Leave a Comment

(Originally from KP double number November 2012 / February 2013, Vol. 54 Nr. 4 / Vol. 55 Nr. 1) Korean souvenir sheets fall into various categories depending on how it is used and then a value is put on that category. Most of us put the SS into two groups; it is either mint or […]

Korean First Flights

June 5, 2018January 21, 2019 Stanley Kim1446Leave a Comment

Incheon International Airport in Korea is currently served by 70 airlines from all over the world. This is a far cry from a sole foreign flight by Northwest Airlines back in August, 1947. There have been many “first flights” by various airline carriers into and out of Seoul since then. However, leading up to the […]

“Welcome to My World”, First Ten Years (1969-1979) of Korean Airlines as a Civilian Carrier

May 21, 2018January 21, 2019 Stanley Kim2246Leave a Comment

As a Korean Airlines jet takes off, Elvis Presley’s rendition of “Welcome to My World” was played in the background in an early Korean Airlines’ TV ad campaign. Korean Airlines’ World is the whole wide world now, but it wasn’t quite that wide in the beginning.

Korean FDC’s: “Trying to fill in the blanks”

February 7, 2018September 30, 2018 F. L. Korean1538Leave a Comment

“Korea’s Special Souvenir Card for the Gold Medal Winners of the 1960 Olympics” was a neat little historical item in Korean Philately, (November 1997, page 8) contributed by KSS member Jack Kay. The article reminded me of an episode in my early Korean collecting-life.

Korean Philately – October 1957

January 9, 2018November 18, 2018 KP Online Editor1366Leave a Comment

Contents of Korean Philately Vol. VI No. 3; 4290 October 1. This was the October 1957 edition of the KP. Note the Korean style of dating the years: this system was used during the 1950s and early 1960s.